Bonnie lives in East Aurora, which was perfect, as we wanted to visit the Roycroft Campus. Founded by Elbert Hubbard in the late 1890s, they built arts and crafts-inspired furniture and fixtures, and printed beautiful books. Maybe you have seen their floppy leather bound books in antique stores.
Here is a sample of his printing and design work.
Peter pretend printing in the Roycroft Print Shop.
Take some time to learn about the Roycrofters. It was an amazing movement and inspiring place to visit. We may return to teach printing classes there. Here are some pictures of their buildings:
We drove to Chillicothe, Ohio and visited the home of Dard Hunter one of our inspirations and artistic mentors. Dard was a Roycrofter, and after leaving them set out on his own to make the “Harmonious Book” where he, rather than a machine or some other craftsman, made the paper, designed and cast the type, and printed the book. We stopped by Dard III's Mountain House Studios and then visited Hunter’s Mountain House.
We then drove the beautiful Appalachian Highway, past the famous Indian mounds, to Lexington, KY, where we will attend the Miniature Book Society Meeting and print a broadside using Victor Hammer’s wooden common press of the Stamperia del Santuccio at the King Library on the University of Kentucky campus.
3 comments:
I used to have a leather-bound Elbert Hubbard scrapbook - think it was lost in the '89 earthquake.
Your meanderings are fun!
We were going to go to the Roycroft Campus, on the recommendation of Marilyn Cathcart, but by then we were just ready to get to CT. Maybe we'll get there sometime this year!
It was wonderful to have you park outside our home in EA (especially after the late night adventure!). So glad you had a good time at the Roycroft. Hope to see you again sometime. You are welcome at our home anytime.
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